Friday, June 13, 2008 4:00pm - Saturday, June 14, 2008 12:00pm
June 13 and 14 , 2008
Sociometry Fair 2008
Sociometry Fair 2008, Friday June 13th and Saturday 14th at Co-
Prosperity Sphere in Chicago, Illinois USA!
Sociometry is “the quantitative analysis of individuals and their relationship to groups.” The Institute of Sociometry, or IS, practices “guerrilla sociometry” which does not conform to the rigors of math or science! We are a dispersed guerilla communication collective active since 1995. IS has 305 special agent subscriber/
contributors in 17 countries (54 in Chicago) engaged in DIY, post- genera, activist-art and social research via web, video, ’zines and instillations.
Since 1996 The Sociometry Fair has followed the same quadrennial schedual as the summer Olympics and the (U.S.) Presidential nominating conventions. Sociometry Fair 2008 is fourth in the series. The Sociometry Fair selects a different host city for each fair based partly, in the words of is agent Roman DeSalvo, on the availability of urban decay and vice. IS agents have a chance to get together with
old friends, meet pen-pals face-to-face for the first time, and present their previous four years of research on free standing tri- fold displays and dioramas.
Schedual
6/13 Friday:
Open at 4pm.
Donations after 8pm. $9.95, $4.95 student
Bands around 9pm:
Disposable Thumbs (Chicago) http://www.myspace.com/disposablethumbs
Beltholes (Seattle) http://www.myspace.com/thebeltholes
6/14 Saturday:
Open at 1pm
Screening from 5 to 7 and 8 to 10:
Jonathin Rafman
PJ Ravel
Melinda Stone
Christian Roth
Chelsea Knight
The Yes Men
